At his shop and museum in Bristol, Bucks County, Rob Leipziger is living a boyhood dream.

“When I grew up, 13 years old, I started working at a gas station. I got to wax ’em,” Rob said. “One of the fellows had a ’68 Chevelle Big Block 375 car, and the thing was a rocket ship. That’s where I really developed a love of all these cars.”

These cars are rare gems. They were meant to literally be sacrificed for speed.

“Every one of these cars, the survival rate is nil because everybody raced them,” Rob said. “You’d miss a gear–it’s a solid lift camshaft motor–and you’d hurt the motor. That was the end of the car.”

A white Camaro RS/SS with a red interior was made specifically as a pace car for the 1969 Indy 500.

“This beauty caught my eye,” Meisha said.

“There’s less than 700 of these that were made,” Rob said.

Another car is “like a boss,” Meisha joked. “Why does this say Boss 429? What’s significance of that?”

“These are really rare. This is a real 29,000 mile Boss 429, all original,” Rob said. “The only thing that we did to the car, and believe me I took a lot of (flack) over it, we did paint it. Still the original seat covers, rugs, floor mats…”